The buildings that came to attention in 2020

It’s just constant eyes on Sydney’s amazing new art installation, Phoenix Central Park (John Wardle with Durbach Bloch Jaggers), the surreal Penguin Parade Visitor Center in Victoria, Terrior, the Marrickville Public Library (BVN) and Queensland’s colorful and delicate My Rest. Turtle Center (Kirk).

But in a year when the new flash rail infrastructure, provocative small projects and stylized bridges have also driven the architectural spirit away from the great and beloved educational and hospitable developments, many other glorious Australian projects are a visit.

To make an Adelaide for the Big Australian BHP, the “global studio” Woods Bagot has created an eight-story CBD building, enriched materially and spatially with an unfessed and supposedly exposed shape that evokes a commercial site, like a mine?

Including cafeteria-style resting spaces and recreation rooms on split floor plates, and with the magnificent lost wooden staircase placed in the middle (a big trend 2020), the purpose of staff inclusion in what the company calls ‘a parts tool’.

The landing of the South Perth ferry, which is the gateway to the zoo, disappointed until Iredale Pedersen Hook and Place’s lab presented two ‘awnings’ in the form of giant Australian animals made of an aluminum plate. The council had called for “playful. ” What gave it a nine-metre flying-necked lizard and an equally giant number, now obviously visual of the city across the Swan River and impossible to resist as an Instagram background.

Two of Melbourne’s small, pragmatic studios have combined their talents to make Victoria’s Open Public Lands Environmental Agency a new, easy-to-occupy warehouse in Albert Park, south of the city.

Harrison White Architecture with Archier used wood, obvious concrete, green and developing elements, soft grasses and constantly flowing air in this modernist building, acclaimed for its long-lasting features and for bringing “exteriority” to the interior.

Because they have preserved their heritage buildings, Tasmanian architects are reusing old premises for new functions.

Near Cataract Gorge in Launceston, an 1830s flour mill that has traditionally suffered some fires had already been established as the Stillwater restaurant.

More recently, Cumulus Studio has remodeled the top component into seven new suites that show charred wood and tin, and grow a fire-themed color palette that maintains the readability of the structure’s history.

Long known for its exceptional and individualistic projects, ARM Architecture has developed some other construction in the almost Moorish form of monash University’s new chancellery. It is melbourne’s administrative headquarters of what, in a general year, is one of the largest tertiary. establishments in Australia.

An oblong glass construction wrapped in a steel shading screen with various geometries, has a public corridor with columns and cloistering and an interior with a central vacuum that invites you to look at a fresh roof illuminated through a window depicting the drawings of Australian flora. Margaret Preston, basically. Jurors praised the Chancellery as “exceptional and uncompromising. “

Designed through the architect of Perth Nic Brunsdon and the practice of the island, Manguning Architecture, a new boutique hotel for Bali’s remote north coast, the Tiing is a series of concrete accommodation pavilions with eight-metre walls poured into the bamboo bureaucracy that have left an inscription on them.

Recognized in national and foreign awards, The Tiing emptied for a maximum of 2020 and charged partial price to the lucky few guests.

Koning Eizenberg Architecture’s excellent paintings at an old Carnegie Free library from the 1880s in Pittsburgh, which went through lightning in 2006 and was left empty for years, is another of the excellent kind of enchanting ruins that are re-born. company, run by Australia-educated Julie Eizenberg and Hank Koning, got to work.

Now, with stabilized broken layers and a step forward with new practical, functional and graphical installations, the construction has been redesigned as an experimental area laboratory that accommodates young people and adolescents over the age of 10. He recently won foreign awards, with Dezeen’s jury deciding that he had “exceeded what he intended to achieve. “

Winner of the most productive bar category at the recently announced Eat Drink Awards, studio-gram has given Adelaide’s new beverage establishment, Leigh Street Wine Room, a sense of familiarity charm.

Where have we ever found places like this narrow arched space?The Europe of the 1950s?A little bright to feel at home from a little boy who does a lot of hospitality but never manages to repeat himself.

In the primary annual awards ceremonies, architects have a habit of showing respect for “sustainable” architectural projects that remain applicable and inspiring.

This year, Queensland’s bankruptcy paid tribute to a 1963 church project, Holy Trinity in Indooroopilly, which still represents “a dramatic piece” of foreign modernism that would “be difficult to build even today. “

Run by Douglas and Barnes and in two parts, featuring a small circular arched and sloping baptistery with stained glass by artists of the time, adding Ray Crooke, the small separate layout is like a miniaturized edition of the dazzling medieval Holy Chapel.

 

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